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My 'Hopenhagen citizenship' was easy to obtain, but what would it get me? Was I entitled to vote or
apply for social benefits? Could I move there for the summer?
It didn't take long before the penny dropped. This place was not so much a city-state as a state of mind.

Homosexuals in Iran and allegedly 'adulterous' women in some countries are at risk of execution. Such cases may not qualify for refugee status in Australia, but would benefit from a 'complementary protection' Bill currently before Parliament.

Fr Ted Kennedy's work with Indigenous Australians brought him conflict with police, landowners, parishioners and church authorities. If you live at the margins, you will be marginalised. How best to handle this marginalisation?

The Pope's social encyclical comes at a time when Australian churches increasingly have to provide charity to those who have been
failed by the state. For charity to constitute true giving, social organisations must also be prepared to commit politically.

'Migration reform' rarely has positive
connotations when dealing with refugees and asylum seekers. As asylum seekers continue to reach Australia by boat, reforms to Labor's immigration policies point to a more just approach.

Our personal documents had been swept up with assorted hardware and carried away. Only after a sleepless night did the potential for mischief at our expense became clear. The burglars had assumed control of our identities.

Dodson can be expected to show courageous leadership, and not shrink from challenging government.
The responses of Tony Abbott and some Aboriginal leaders exemplify the fact that many see the focus on Indigenous rights as passé.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer is an outspoken promoter of Bhutan and its culture, which includes the concept of 'gross national happiness'. Human Rights Watch has used the term 'ethnic cleansing' to describe official attempts to preserve the country's cultural values.

When Germaine Greer savaged Michelle Obama's dress, I sighed. The 'beauty' market is a challenge to feminism. In France, two extremes of fashion ideology — burqas and plastic-surgery 'mannequins' — line up to buy bread.

The Rudd Government's abolition of the Temporary Protection Visa on 9 August was a source of deep hope for refugees and their supporters. However the new rule has not yet been applied to many older cases, and there is no pressure on officials to act quickly.

The Edmund Rice Centre's Phil Glendenning is is the ordinary gruff Australian bloke abroad - a
Merv Hughes or an Ian Chappell, not naturally articulate but enduring
and not to be fobbed off with smooth talk. His
silent listening is the moral centre of this powerful SBS TV documentary about returned asylum seekers.